So Jack Layton died this morning, leaving behind him a posthumous letter to the effect of 'I regret nothing ( Read more... )

"Someday, people who are terrified, you will laugh about this. And someday, people who are laughing, you will be terrified." -- Lemony Snicket, Senior Correspondent for Politically Unfortunate Events

Won the battle, lost the war. But oh what a glorious and unforgettable battle it was! Still, when I summed up the possibilities last night, I didn't expect/want them all to happen at once! :P

We'll see what comes next.

More later, maybe.

...and the headlines are apparently just trying to blatantly out-do each other now. The possibility of an NDP official opposition, the fear of a possible Conservative majority, the hope of the first Green MP (or maybe even two!) in Canadian history... and with 12 hours to go before voting starts, we're in a total eclipse of Osama.

Apparently ( Read more... )

If you had asked me at any point yesterday whether I would be watching the Royal Wedding, I would have said "of course not, don't be absurd."

If you had then told me that I would in fact be watching it, live, at 3am, from the hour-long "wedding countdown" through to the first carriage arriving back at the palace, I would have looked at you very ( Read more... )

http://twitter.com/#!/CanMedianVoter

Working hard to elect the first Green MP in Canadian history. Might actually pull it off. More later.

From a week ago, not that I heard a single damn thing about it:

"The 15th annual anti-police brutality protest in Montreal which started peacefully, but ended with a brutal crack down by the police"

A more, ahem, 'sanitized' report is over here.

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All of this brought to mind by this lovely basket of cheer direct from London.

* "You sunk my studio!!" if there was any justice in the world...

* "Please go directly to video, do not pass theatres, do not collect a few dozen million dollars? Please??"

Man, and they were saying the bottom of the barrel was getting dangerously over-scraped back in 19-friggin-99. Oh what a decade it's been!

This can NOT be real... but if it is I am SO there.

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